Tuesday, October 24, 2000

Kosmos 482

  1972-023A


The V-72 No. 671 probe was the last of the original design. It was launched on 1972 Mar 31, but the Blok-L final stage cut off early due to a timer failure, and the probe was stranded in an elliptical Earth orbit instead of being injected into solar orbit. It was given the cover name of Kosmos-482.


Kosmos-482 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1972 Mar 31  0402:33  Launch by 8K78M  KB LC31 
 0407  Blok-I burn  
 0411  Blok-I sep  88.54 196 x 215 x 51.78 (RAE, 23B) 
 0502?  BOZ burn  
 0503?  Blok-L burn  
 0503?  BOZ sep 
 0505?  Blok-L engine failed after 2:05 
 0507?  Blok-L sep  
 1900   201.44 205 x 9805 x 52.22 (RAE)  
1973 Dec 16  1200   185.50 209 x 8589 x 52.19 (RAE)  
1981 May 5   Capsule reentered 
2000 Aug 26   Spacecraft orbit144.65 214 x 5284 x 52.1 

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